In a Facebook Live video, Greaves stressed that the Satanic Temple didn’t bring Baphomet there with the intention of replacing the Ten Commandments, nor was it a call to take that monument down.

“We only want our monument on public grounds where other monuments of religious significance are pre-existing,” he said.

The Satanic Temple’s position is that public squares should be areas in which “free speech, religious liberty and equality under the law be respected by the holders of public office who swore to uphold those values,” Greaves said.

It does not object to Christian monuments being erected in such spaces, but to the exclusive display of that religion’s symbols.

“We have as little interest in forcing our beliefs and symbols upon you, as we do in having the beliefs of others forced upon us,” Greaves said at the rally.